5 Ways Humans Make It Rain

[@DanielMether]

"for better or worse", can't wait for the better to finally start.

[@dr.decker3623]

THe planet is cyclical,.. 13,000 years ago we were 2/3rds covered in ice... around 6000 years ago the Nile Delta and surrounding deserts were lush Jungles... things happen on a cyclical planet... there is no stopping it. Not on a volcanic rock fueled by the Electromagnetic induction of the sun.. it will get better soon though, we are in the trough of Solar Max/Min and the spot count is low, so our atmosphere can be more affected by galactic sources than usual.

[@nathanyoung3483]

He said "or" not "and"

[@Hailfire08]

@@dr.decker3623 There are cycles, but we're sure as hell screwing things up - usually it takes centuries to change by even a fraction of a degree, and we've gotten that in decades. Also look up what induction us, because I don't think it's what you think it is. And the Earth is minimally affected by anything that isn't the Sun or Moon - especially not other stars.

[@jessicaevans7847]

You've got a pandemic, a race war, and an alien invasion to deal with first. Imma make some "I survived 2020" shirts.

[@jessicaevans7847]

@@dr.decker3623 but.....galactus sucks though.

[@lancebon2931]

There are reports in the past that in war zones the firing of canons and bombs compressed the moist air molecules to form rain. I read this about more than 55 years ago in high school.

[@quoiquand2888]

Dang that's pretty cool

[@AlRoderick]

I've seen that as well, some research has credited it to the smoke and dust from the battles as well.

[@vincentfalcone8802]

completely correct although it was more common over battlefields during black powder line battles, there was for sure a correlation during ww1 and ww1 as well, but it was during the spring and fall when moisture in the air was high but looking for a reason to come out. oops sorry didnt watch far enough at the time they talk about bombs and their creation of rains right there in the vid

[@troyclayton]

Cool. Here in New England (all of the East coast?) we have the greatest chance of rain on Saturdays and the lowest on Mondays due to pollution produced by activity to the west. Thanks for the rainy Saturdays.

[@counterfit5]

Those jerks!

[@jamesmueller8701]

Guggeta bout it

[@kevinrobinson8334]

where's your proof of this theory

[@deanjulian6189]

anytime buddy

[@SeanMcklo]

Great to see Shetland appear, great island!

[@arthas640]

Shetland: great island, tiny horses

[@TheLesau]

Land of twatt and twatt's church

[@Dr.Al-Haitham]

@@zack7122 shitland 🤣🤣

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Shetland: Great Island! Tiny Horses!

[@mallowthecloud]

Having too many aerosols, and thus too small of droplets for rain, is called pluvial constipation. Definitely a missed opportunity to use that phrase!

[@MTerrance]

I once suffered from plural constipation. It was awful.

[@MTerrance]

@mozamioo _ that was supposed to be "pluvial constipation " not "plural constipation ". Autocorrect is a constant source of the mundane. Any word that is not in common usage gets "corrected" into a more common word, logical or not.

[@jonathansauceda589]

Five separate paths we as a species have accidentally taken that change how frequently water evaporates and falls back to the earth

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

"They gathered their data on an island in northern Scotland, where there was very little polution....and very little horses."

[@jamesmueller8701]

and little horses have smaller farts... so that's a good thing,, too...

[@stavrospapadimitriou7631]

The easiest way to ensure rain is to plan a lovely picnic!

[@mpred8606]

During the Taal volcano phreatic explosion on January 12 heavy rainfall with soot and ash occured in Metro Manila it rained harder rather than making it less rainy since the explosion was phreatic, so in conclusion the theory with aerosols have some backing into it

[@danielc.5530]

Ad 5: This is not a mere theory or lab experiment. In Germany, for example, cloud seeding is routinely done to prevent hail storms over the industrial area around Stuttgart. The car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has huge areas in the open with assembled cars that could be damaged by hail. This is why they (together with insurance companies and communities) pay for three "Hagelflieger", i.e. cloud seeder planes, that distribute an aerosol of silver iodide and aceton.

[@christophermpride]

Somewhere in the world, DARPA is laughing at this silly little video.

[@driftingdruid]

the first two points help support my belief that vertical farms in skyscrapers and solarpunk cities are the future

[@daniellanctot6548]

7:40 - "Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." -- Dr. Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park.

[@dr.decker3623]

6: Gets a bunch of $1bills in hand... Proceeds to nearest strip club.. :D

[@auri1075]

Shetland... whoever named that island is a madlad

[@misusedfilms69]

Im a Snow Maker! Ive lived the last 2 weeks making my own blizzards every night and dancing under the stars! BEST JOB EVER

[@stephen_boss]

I love this guy..such a good narrator

[@josephwheeler1]

In SLC they regularly see the clouds. They burn the material which hopefully will make its way high enough to cause extra snowfall. They say that it increases snowfall in the mountains by 5%. I guess they've been doing it for a long time and consistently. There are articles about in the news from time to time.

[@Bowsby1]

Not to mention the inversion from being inside the uinta basin

[@benburgess9428]

I live not far from Houston. During Hurricane Harvey the water in my street was 3 feet deep. It was 7 feet deep in my local Torchy’s Tacos.

[@sirBrouwer]

I know that back in the 90's my father (and the dredging company he worked for) was requested to dredge a channel in to the desert of Abu Dhabi. The channel and the tries that they planted along them where also a way to increase the chance of rain occurring. I am curious if it worked at all.

[@d00mf00d]

I see that affect with the city making the storm more intense around KC. Storms form west of the metro, and almost always get much stronger when they move into missouri.

[@xenogorwraithblade2538]

Just saw the title and immediately thought of at least one way.

[@themagichatter1054]

Cloud seeding, am I right?

[@dustincasey1000]

Make it rain with 100 dollar bills

[@terryenby2304]

Showers?

[@terryenby2304]

@@cleverusernamenexttime2779 I was so tempted to go there but I figured I would let people use their imaginations 😅

[@MrDDiRusso]

My umbrella broke in half today, but it's ok because there's only a 50% chance of rain.

[@FalbertForester]

"Can't you do a rain dance?" "If you've ever been to Montana in January, then you'll know why the Blackfeet don't have a rain dance. They have a "stop-this-damned-wind-and-snow" dance. And it doesn't work, either."

[@dumptruckree1417]

This video made me so water thirsty

[@danielberry4728]

Depending on the trajectory, there are many ways

[@Royyaaaal]

I almost died during Hurricane Harvey when it hit Houston.. I was literally in the eye of the storm it started by the area I was then it started shifting, & then all of a sudden it turned around & came back to my area & it just stopped moving & rain was just pouring not moving at all

[@donnjb83]

We set up hoses to water guns to semi-high pressure water hydrants pumped from a water collection point and spray it around the mountain, but only when it's cold

[@TheOriginalGDahl]

Hank I Absolutely LOVE your shirt!

[@ericleecoronado504]

The western United States is in a severe drought right now, hopefully scientists find a way to actually create rain to help cities out west because they really need it.

[@thanhavictus]

This is spooky, I just learned about city rain effects yesterday on randomly browsing a completely unrelated video.

[@Scribe13013]

Rain is an integral part of the ecosystem

[@jomiar309]

4:00 Nuclear engineer here. When a nuclear bomb goes off, you get very high temperatures (a 1 megaton bomb's fireball will be hotter than the sun, for example). You also release photons at basically every wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum as you break atoms apart. This wall of photons and heat is what does most of the ionizing, ripping electrons off nearby atoms and forming plasmas. The radioactive decay of the byproducts is pretty minor compared to the huge generation of ions from simply dumping tons of heat and light into things. Please be more careful of your terminology. That amount of heat also atomizes the ground below the explosion, creating more aerosolized particles that easily travel up with the heat and end up in the atmosphere. I would guess that the presence of radioactive isotopes actually had a very small effect compared to 10^20+ ions spiraling along the geomagnetic field lines around the globe or the ultra-fine dust floating along streamlines after the rocks and dirt condense in the atmosphere. As an aside, similar things happen when you blow up huge conventional explosives, too, but you don't quite get the wall of electromagnetic energy from conventional explosions that you do from nuclear ones, and therefore not as many ions generated.

[@Malroth00Returns]

10^20 ions ... so 0.01 g worth?

[@MTerrance]

Nothing beats getting a comment by a nuclear engineer!! Nothing!! Damn!!! Nicely done.

[@theholypeanut8193]

Ah yes, sweet sweet man-made horrors beyond comprohension

[@DaveTpletsch]

I find it strange that no one seems to have used Pseudomonas Syringae bacteria for cloud seeding, since multiple lab studies show that the bacteria seem to be perfectly suited for both providing vapor condensation sites and the promotion of ice nucleation. It just feels like a huge missed opportunity to me.

[@pvic6959]

it started to rain not even 2 minutes after i started this video... thats scary

[@thedarkdragon1437]

@@lordodysseus canadian snowstorm is nothing compared to arctic storm headed our way down here in estonia. Atleast you're accustomed to it:D

[@munnymic]

Weather is unpredictable...as of yet, I hope! 😊

[@wxwxsrg]

You are wrong of course, but its easy to think that if you watched the weather Channel.

[@robinsss]

@@wxwxsrg the narrator said that we don't have enough control to eliminate rain before a sporting event that is ironic because that's exactly what China did a few hours before the Olympics China spent millions on a shady project to control the weather ahead of the Beijing Olympics - and dozens of other countries are doing it too www.businessinsider.com/china-sets-aside-millions-to-control-the-rain-2016-7

[@robinsss]

@@wxwxsrg there was another study in South Africa Results of cloud seeding study bode well for Western Cape The study was conducted by Middleburg based Water Analytical Services (WAS) and its international partner Weather Modification International (WMI) over a period of two months and included a simulation which revealed that if cloud seeding was deployed at Theewaterskloof Dam in the Western Cape; precipitation would increase by potentially 40%-50% thereby bolstering the water levels at the dam and its associated reservoir. infrastructurenews.co.za/2018/05/15/results-of-cloud-seeding-study-bode-well-for-western-cape/

[@airnt]

isn't cloud seeding routine in Russia? I was at an event in Russia where 87 milion rubles was spent on cloud seeding with rockets and the weather did actually show a clear front that weirdly didn't rain out over moscow. it has been done for a longer time, though, first be means of large bomber aircraft, now with cheaper rockets to propel large amounts of seeding agent in the air.

[@toshy]

Yeah, but that is Russian science... This is an American science channel. It really pains me to see where the divide in this world came to...

[@airnt]

@@toshy haha, i see your point, but i think this channel normally makes a real effort to be complete, it is easy to miss a whole section of this kind of stuff as most publications will be in Russian and therefore cyrillic. The Phenomenon you describe is an endless frustration to me , sometimes people using sort of true statements designed to have the listener misinterpret them to mean something else. 'the biggest submartine in (US) service' to be taken as 'the biggest submarine' , just as an example. I don't think we can accuse Scyshow of that.

[@toshy]

@@airnt Are we talking about the same scishow that is pandering to the progressives that wear "Science is cool" t-shirts while writing essays about how genders are a social constructs? Yeah :( Those and science deniers are different sides of the same coin :( Anyway, I'm from Eastern Europe and cloud seeding is regularly used here, and it really works. Also, it's funny that scishow made a video on how artificial cloud seeding just a few months ago.

[@philipb2134]

I loved hearing British weather forecasts that tomorrow will be "partly dry".

[@knightshade6232]

thats why it rains bad in manila, and its so hot their too.. specially in the summer... and when it rains it feels sticky

[@calcifur]

I swear fireworks cause rain. Happens every 4th of July

[@SamButler22]

C'mon Hank, say dancing

[@mooniejohnson]

Water vapor: "Come together... riiiight now... over cities... [attempt at the bass riff]"

[@sandybarnes887]

....attempts a Ringoesque drum roll

[@ABOWDEN107]

You forgot to mention the horrible winter that was caused in 2018 in Idaho we called it “Snowmageddon”.

[@Mckinnely]

1. Paper bills 2. Plastic bills 3. Coins 4. Cheques 5. Debit Cards

[@mykilpee]

Thank you for saving me 10 minutes

[@theonetribble5867]

I'm from Bavaria and here cloud seeding with silver-iodine is used to prevent hail from forming by letting the clouds rain off before ice cristals kan form.

[@yartastic]

Pretty nice video, keep it up SciShow!

[@real10002]

You're second

[@yartastic]

@@real10002 welp I tried

[@NYR14477]

You forgot number 6 the Indian rain dance

[@chickenman7032]

About cities thou in the winter they get colder because less trees and grass and tall buildings create solid shadows as well

[@Korcalius]

At 4:18, when you said there was a slight charge difference across each molecule, did you mean Polarity? Because that is a characteristic of the distribution of electrons and how the Atoms pull them towards themselves.

[@chris-Ribble-Roots]

I can think of a way to make it rain. Live in England and say “It’s gonna be a nice day today”.

[@ravencloud7]

IVE BEEN TO SHETLAND!! WOOO

[@rebeljohn747]

That t-shirt is that? I like it

[@samwitty9735]

Wasn’t cloud seeding done at the Olympics to prevent raining for some of the events?

[@robinsss]

yes he's wrong as usual the narrator said that we don't have enough control to eliminate rain before a sporting event that is ironic because that's exactly what China did a few hours before the Olympics China spent millions on a shady project to control the weather ahead of the Beijing Olympics - and dozens of other countries are doing it too www.businessinsider.com/china-sets-aside-millions-to-control-the-rain-2016-7

[@MewtwoExMasterMusic]

He said it! HE SAID THE THING!! Ayyyy

[@doctorrobert1339]

Meanwhile my city rarely gets a day of rain in total every year, yeah lol

[@PRINCEkris01]

That shark shirt is pretty nice 👌

[@CorwynGC]

Rain dances on dry dusty escarpments will put a lot of particulates into the air, perhaps causing rain.

[@florf4578]

OP, but didn't China seed clouds prior to an Olympics event? I can't remember which year.

[@owelic]

yep they have been doing it for years.

[@mykilpee]

Bombs help rainfall?!?! Hello California, do I have a solution for you.

[@uhohhotdog]

So we should build cities in the desert to make the desert less desert. Got it

[@wxwxsrg]

...no...

[@Binarokaro]

Me before watching this video: "Haha nah, I don't think Anarcho-Primitivism is really necessary" Me after watching this video: "Damn maybe the anprims are onto something after all"

[@eaterdrinker000]

NO WAY TO PREVENT THIS

[@Felix.Wingfield]

Like... Maybe buildings should be of limited height and covered in greenery... Solarpunk style.

[@Marinuss]

We will reach that stage inevitably

[@moodist1er]

Ancaps are libertarians who don't realize they're conservatives. Screaming anticapitalism while advocating for uncontrolled capitalism, that's some efficient fn indoctrination.

[@thedduck]

Well, if only you could just make it rain wherever there's a wildfire.. 🤔

[@mykilpee]

They said nuclear bombs were one way... So... Let's make winter! 🤣 (Listens to "what a wonderful world")

[@Wandertheworldwithme]

Genius!

[@thedduck]

@@Wandertheworldwithme I know right? Like ddduuuuhhhh!!! 🙃

[@Mike-sd5ww]

Checking in from Florida. Any tips on how to stop it from raining?

[@mekaylasullivan51]

I like your shirt, Hank

[@redacted5035]

6. Balling out at dA cLuB

[@DanielChevalier-rh9cq]

Just add water. Like a giant irrigation project.

[@64CSAR]

#6.) Tossing dollar bills in the air.

[@bkbug6416]

Operation Popeye during the Vietnam war was cloud seeding.

[@ahe79]

Right, Project Stormfury is mentioned, but not Operation Popeye, where it is estimated that the rainfall was increased by 30%. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_warfare

[@3nertia]

They used cloud seeding successfully for the 2008 Beijing Olympics!

[@BillyTheKidder]

So what your saying is... Sci Show gets this (and ironically all other conspiracies) verifiably wrong? Maybe we shouldn’t trust KZbinrs or talking heads on the TV for scientific information..

[@squeaksquawk4255]

9:24 China accually tried to do that. In 2008, a few days before the Olympics, rain was forecast on the day of the opening ceromony of the Beijing Olympics. In response, China launched 1,110 rockets from 23 launch sites, causing it to rain on Baoding city, south-west of Beijing. Luckily, it worked. Cloud Seeding is accually a government department in China, with 40,000 employees, 7,000 cannons, 4,687 rocket launchers and a budget equivalent to $50 million. Apparently, it is customary to seed clouds before national holidays to ensure clear skys. You have to admit, that is pretty cool! Source: www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/how-beijing-used-rockets-to-keep-opening-ceremony-dry-890294.html

[@SomeDudeOnline]

Does anyone know if bridge neighborhoods have ever been proposed? Like building a bridge that’s 4 times as wide as other bridges in CAs Bay Area, and then building a bunch of houses on it with a single lane in each direction. Only people who live on the bridge would have access to the bridge and I’m sure it would be crazy expensive to build but people that live in the bay love spending a ton of money on housing and this would give them the best access to the rest of the bay with improved traffic.

[@MultiAyame]

"an island in scotland" On screen: shetland 😂

[@hikari_manekineko]

And AFAIK it's an archipelago, there's not a single island call Shetland.

[@darastrixmaekrix]

Not going to mention Operation Popeye?

[@mphephimjwara5685]

Got here early for once love the channel

[@coldham77]

Phoenix is a heat island and it never rains.

[@massimookissed1023]

It's in a desert. That might have something to do with it.

[@olivergaither]

#6 With money, lots of money

[@olivergaither]

@Orion Rodriguez making it hail and making it rain are two different things

[@426superbee4]

I guess it take water to make water, like fire. it takes fire to make a fire

[@petekarm]

Here in Moscow (Russia) government every year uses cloud seeding, trying to prevent rains during major holidays (like the parade on 9th of May). Millions of dollars are being spent for that each year. You can google it in russian with the words "разгон облаков".

[@briancorea9735]

I cant belive that i actually have that same blue shirt with sharks😂

[@jessicaevans7847]

We make it rain We make it rain We make it rain on their toes!

[@blackteamochi]

hey scishow can we have a video talking about how covid is suspended in aerosols for 16+ hours

[@stevenutter3614]

3:50 Hank, not unpredictable, at least hypothetically

[@lancebon2931]

People realized this after the civil war, they tried it out. they quit when they figured it out that a lack of certain clouds it wouldn't rain, crops dry out.

[@shaundubai8941]

UAE - we do cloud seeding on a regular and reliable basis - produce downpours and lightning

[@vincentfalcone8802]

lets get a YEEERRRRR for nyc at 2:20

[@CorbiniteVids]

idk this whole idea about trying to make rain just reminds me of this whole "any water that makes it to the ocean is wasted" mentality over here in california. We need that moisture in the air to make it to their destination and end up as snowpack or upland rain because that's what our water usage infrastructure has depended on for centuries, not to mention it's what our ecosystems have depended on for far longer. Making rain isn't making water, it comes from somewhere, you're always gonna be taking it from somewhere. It's like when the state builds more dams to "fix" the drought and then surprise surprise the rivers are all dry now and the drought is worse

[@vasp99]

Hank !!

[@travismackey5490]

What about Saudi Arabia or Dubai somewhere over there I seen something about them seading the clouds

[@sonyipod]

What about that huge machine that makes clouds? I wonder why they didn't mention that. 🤔

[@robinsss]

NASA created one by accident Making Artificial Rain Clouds kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6nLhquYlrF1qK8

[@jonatanromanowski9519]

Go Go Sci Show

[@M0CC3R]

So to decrease climate change, we can release arosals?

[@counterfit5]

If we get desperate, yes

[@M0CC3R]

We are already desperate with four years wasted on a president that made our jobs of saving future generations 10 times harder.

[@bobymanna8468]

+Kevin Malone, yes. Theoretically yes. However, such a large endeavour with so many unknown factors is actually huge double edged sword. Kurzgesagt explored this exact idea in their geo-engineering video. I recommend that you give it a watch.

[@M0CC3R]

@@bobymanna8468 i will

[@M0CC3R]

@@bobymanna8468 what if you just simply put mirrors on rooftop? Doing so would be like the glaciers, reflecting the light so that the heat cools down.

[@bLackmarketRadio]

H.A.A.R.P.? Anyone?

[@massimookissed1023]

Conspiratard, anyone ?

[@silenceiscompliance4131]

Geoengineering? Anyone 😉

[@bLackmarketRadio]

@@massimookissed1023 Statist moron, you? Get well soon.

[@evannazareth9114]

Aren't water molecules polar molecules and hence have a charge

[@bharris591]

It's like you're reading dune and being inspired by the concepts What about sand worms?

[@josephwheeler1]

Can this frictional slowing also occur around wind farms?

[@ldority123]

Ne va da ( rhymes with dad) , not Ne vah da (rhymes with nada). Still love ya, Hank!

[@SaiyanHeretic]

#6. I bless the rains down in Africa.

[@JodBronson]

You can make it rain EASILY...... Go outside and dance until rain. Then run and tell people, see.... It worked !!!

[@OCSM1TH]

Sci show-Ways humans make it rain ......magic city on a Saturday night 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@timnicholls19]

I was kinda hoping there was something that could maybe create rain. Ie if we mist water at point a that it turns to vapour and fall at point b (obviously more to it) that way we could lesson the velocity of droughts

[@Sylkis89]

Maybe if we ever discover how to make a lot of very cloudy and constant rain everywhere on land we could cool the planet down and help with drinkable water sources and with making deserts lush and so on lol